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Ep. 51: “The Journey of Cells” Featuring Dr. Doug Green

The Immunology Podcast

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The Importance of Acronyms in Molecular Biology

LC3 associated endocytosis which by the way we call lando because we needed a name for it and LAE was too hard to say. We were after hours having a beer at a local bar and tossing names around and the Han Solo movie was coming out and it just screamed lando so we used the term lando which was picked up almost immediately. Sometimes having the right name for something matters right I mean some words acronyms are very popular they're always a win thank you thanksYeah that was that wasSomething a graduate student actually taught me many years ago uh Josh Goldstein who was a graduate student in the lab who coined the term mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization.

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